Vocab
Terms
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- lucrative
- profitable
- paramount
- prevailing, common, general
- transient
- passing, short-lived, fleeting
- pathos
- emotional appeal
- initiate
- start, set going
- anaphora
- the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses
- debris
- ruins, fragments
- inductive reason
- specific to general conlusion
- gist
- essence, main point
- congenial
- sympathetic, agreeable
- vogue
- fashion
- zeugma
- a figure of speech made when one part of speech (usually a verb, but sometimes a noun or an adjective) is related to another part of seech in a way that is consistent in terms of grammar but incongruous in terms of meaning. Such use is often humorous and usually ironic.
- puny
- weak, unimportant
- Logos
- appeals to logic, distinguishes an argument
- persuasive writing
- focuses on the reader and audience
- sage
- wise man, philosopher
- hostile
- antagonistic, angry
- superficial
- on the surface, slight
- acute
- sharp, keen, severe
- analytical writing
- focuses on the subject
- prevalent
- supreme, foremost
- antithesis
- the contrast of thoughts in two phrases, cloauses, or sentences
- counterargument
- has three points: acknowledging, accommodating, and refuting
- doddering
- trembling, shaking
- evince
- show plainly, exhibit
- longevity
- long duration of life
- concession
- an expression of concern for the feelings of those who may disagree with the writer's position
- lethargic
- careless, negligent
- aversion
- strong dislike, opposition
- hoard
- hide, store, accumulate
- psychological needs
- a person's inner life, the need for love and self-respect
- obliterate
- erase, wipe out
- virile
- masterful, manly
- tussle
- a rough struggle
- intrinsic
- essential, natural, inborn
- syllogism
- a three part statement used in deductive reasoning
- rebuke
- criticize, reproach, reprimand
- detriment
- injury, damage, hurt
- rue
- regret
- physical needs
- life and health of the body
- awesome
- inspiring terror, weird
- cogent
- forceful, convincing, persuasive
- senile
- infirm, wak from old age
- conflagration
- great fire
- imbibe
- drink
- dispersed
- scattered, spread, broken up
- antimetabole
- the identical or near repetition of words in one phrase or clause in reverse order in the next phrase or clause
- deplorable
- sad, pitiable
- deductive reason
- general to specific conclusion
- social needs
- the need for freedom, for status and power, for acceptance by others
- ethos
- appeal to ethics
- logical fallacies
- flaws in logic
- inevitable
- sure, certain, unavoidable
- terse
- concise, brief, compact
- remiss
- lazy, indifferent
- aegis
- shield, protection, sponsorship
- jettison
- throw overboard, discard
- eruption
- bursting out